How to troubleshoot the Norton Setup “Unable to Activate” Error?

Norton has provided a great relief to its users by offering an advanced layer of protection against the online threats like viruses, spyware, malware and other cyber attacks. Although the Norton offers various sophisticated features to its users, but they may face some common errors or issues while activating the Norton setup to their device. And one such activation errors is “Unable to Activate”. Thus, to troubleshoot the Norton “Unable to Activate” error, I am going to detail some of easiest ways in the below information.

The Norton “Unable to Activate” error is mostly caused when the users are trying to activate the Norton Setup installed to another device by using the email installation invite. As the Norton activation error occurs on the device, an error message box is displayed on the screen that shows the error message as shown below:

Solutions:

Firstly, send the email with all the installation instructions to the device on which the user need to install the Norton Setup. For sending the email installation invite, follow the below instructions:

And then, from the droop-down list, select the “My Subscriptions” option.

After this, a window will be displayed on the screen that displays all the Norton products subscribed by the users.

Out of these subscriptions, select the one that the users want to install to their device.

Now, click the “Download” button and then, tap the “Agree & Download” button within the “Install on this device” window.

After this, a set of instructions will be displayed on the screen that needs to be followed by the Norton users for executing the downloaded file of the Norton Setup.

On completion of the process of execution of the Norton downloaded file, the Norton setup automatically gets downloaded, installed as well as activated to the device.

For any help regarding the aforementioned troubleshooting steps of Norton “Unable to Activate” error, call the Norton Customer Support on the Norton.com/Setup toll-free number. The Norton Customer S8upoort team is available round the clock in order to offer their support services to its users.

An expert in technical writing, James Watson has been studying and writing on all the latest technologies. Be it Outlook, Internet security services, Microsoft and Antivirus, he strives to grab knowledge of even minor updates or changes occurring in the current technological world. Many publishers have published a number of articles written by him.